WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: What's The Problem? 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:07.200 The following Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:18.080 and the Dallas Cowboys football clubs. Are you ready for 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:21.800 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:26.119 ready for a break? Yeah, And so much for that. 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:31.520 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:37.800 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:44.080 It is Monday, December twentieth, twenty twenty one, season seventeen, 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:47.760 episode number eighty two. Welcome to the very latest edition 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:51.840 of The Break, live from the s WBC Mortgage Studios 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:54.720 at the Star. It is Christmas Week. We've got all 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:57.960 kinds of goodies for you guys all week Monday through Thursday. 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:00.840 There will be no show on Friday, but Monday to 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:02.840 Thursday we got a lot of great talk for you, 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:05.440 better talk than you'll hear anywhere else. And I'll put that, 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:07.440 I'll put money on that. This is the best talk 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:10.120 show and all the land, definitely, and anything has to 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:12.040 do with the Dallas Cowboys. So we're glad you guys 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:15.440 joined us. And so let's first talk about this. Cowboys win. 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:18.440 Cowboys get three straight road wins, which I don't care 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:21.000 who you're playing I don't care what the margin of 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:25.080 victory is. Getting three straight road wins is a feat 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:28.040 and it is a tough feat to accomplish in the 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:30.880 National Football League. Let's start with some storylines. Nick, tell 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:34.160 me what is the storyline for you of this game. Well, 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:36.240 they won three straight games on the road, and then, 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:39.280 I don't care what. It doesn't matter who you're playing. 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:42.600 That is a feat. That is an accomplishment. Like you said, 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:45.200 I mean, I think you took it. I mean, they 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:48.560 won three straight games comfortably. For the most part. They 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:53.080 dominated this game, and their defense is, you know, off 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:55.639 the charts right now. Their defense is just absolutely carrying 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:59.200 this team. And that's that's the storyline to me. As 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:00.880 they can win by fifth team points and it felt 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:04.520 like fifty. There was a period of my afternoon where 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:08.120 I was I wasn't mad, but I was I was 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:11.720 troubled by this team. I mean, you keep the talents 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:15.160 is there, you see it every week and you just 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:18.400 keep saying, well, this team sucks. They'll finally get on track, 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:20.919 like they'll finally get on track against this miserable team, 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:26.119 and they didn't Ceedee Lamb had a terrible game. Dak 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:30.120 was fine. He wasn't great. The ground game actually got going, 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:33.360 and so that made it even more disappointing. Dalton Schultz 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:35.720 got going, Like the stuff that we said they needed 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:39.040 to do to get back on track happened, and they 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:42.680 still didn't look good. They scored two touchdowns, they struggled 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:44.880 to score twenty one points. As an offense, I mean 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:47.040 the defense, they might be the best in the NFL 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:48.959 right now. In all honesty, I got nothing bad to 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:53.600 say about them, but offensively, you're just like, this secondary's decimated. 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:55.440 I've got a friend that works in New York media 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:58.040 that was like, if they can't get on track against 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:00.400 this secondary, then they might not have a hope. And 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:02.440 I was like, yeah, I think you're right. And they didn't. 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:05.360 And so I say all this because I was just 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:07.200 signing sitting there, I was like, what the hell is 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:10.440 going on? They're they're gonna be in trouble at some 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:13.680 point because it's not gonna be Glennon and Hinuchy and 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:16.880 Taysom Hill forever. And then I went back to my 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:19.480 hotel to write, and I was cranking out my stories 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:21.160 and doing this and that, and I look over and 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:24.640 I'm like, damn, Tyler Halley's about to maybe beat the Packers. 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:26.799 What the hell's going on? And I went out to 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:28.840 get a drink with a friend of mine after I 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:31.960 was off of work and spent the whole night keeping 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:33.560 an eye on the Saints score, and I was like, 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:36.560 what on earth is going on down in Tampa? What 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:38.720 the hell is happening in this league? And like by 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:40.760 the end of the night, I was like, you know what, 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:43.360 ten wins is ten wins. Three of the road wins 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:45.160 is three road wins. Who gives a damn how you 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:47.560 do it? That's I went full circle in the span 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:51.080 of about four hours where I was I started like 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:54.160 as soon as the game hit zero zero's, I was like, 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:57.040 they're not that good, They're just why can't they get 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:58.640 this right? And like by the end of the night, 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:01.400 I was like, screw it, they got they Look they're 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:04.040 happier than everybody else in the NFC right now. Thank 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:05.720 you for walking us through that, because I think there 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:07.560 are probably a lot of fans that went through that 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:11.480 realization moment last night where they may have started with 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:14.320 man another game where they didn't feel great about a win, 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:16.080 even though a win is a win, but by the 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:18.360 end of the night. They're like, man, December football is hall. 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:20.640 Hey whatever, you get a win, whichever way you get it, 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:23.560 get in and how you fit in at this time 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:27.760 of year, But what's your storyline of the game. I mean, 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:31.440 I feel like everybody just calls me a pessimist, but 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:37.599 I mean I'm not happy, sorry, and I get it. 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:39.360 A win is a win, and I get it. Three 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:45.599 road games, yes, applause for you guys, But I just 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:48.599 I don't know what else to say that I haven't 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:52.000 said before. And it goes week after week, and like 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:54.640 they've said, you keep waiting for them to get going. 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:56.400 You're like, Okay, well it's not that bad. We still 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:58.960 have a few games. You look at the opponents. You 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:01.160 can do it. I mean, these other teams are not 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:04.680 playing great, so it's doable. You get to see you 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:07.200 get to see the Giants, and you're thinking, this is 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:10.880 a perfect game for them to kind of click again 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:16.640 on offense. And great thing from Zeke and Paula, and 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:18.920 I'm sure we'll talk about them. That was good to 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:22.039 see them going. But it just sucks not to be 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:25.039 able to get the kind of offense that you're looking 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:28.000 for to finish out this stretch and Dak, I don't 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:31.599 know if he is gonna. I don't want to say 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:34.599 that because I think he will. In my heart, I 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:36.920 feel like, yes, that's what I want, and I think 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:39.599 he will. But it's just it's not happening. We have 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:43.520 not seen improvement from Dak. Even though was it Jerry 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:46.040 that was saying that he saw some improvement from Dak. 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:50.279 I missed Jerry last night. I thought Dak looked better yesterday. Actually, 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:52.560 I was just about to go there, I actually think 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:55.240 and I saw several people on Twitter saying that they 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:58.719 didn't like Dak still not playing well, and I was like, really, 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:02.640 I thought Dak played an efficient game. Like his stat line. 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:04.560 Check out his stat line. He's twenty eight thirty seven. 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:08.760 He had two hundred seventeen yards, touchdown, no interceptions, a 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:12.000 ninety eight point six rating. That's a pretty good day. Now, 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:15.880 of course you factor in some drops, which that ain't 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:19.120 his fault, right, And and I look at this and 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:20.640 I'm like, he would have been right there on the 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:22.960 custom of a three hundred day had he just gotten 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:25.560 some basic catches from some of these guys. I just again, 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:28.040 I don't think that this was a bad performance. By dad. 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:30.320 He's had some bad he's had some stinkers. We've talked 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:32.359 about that. I don't think this was it's just I 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:35.880 think it's it looks worse because you never saw it flowing, 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:38.680 you know. It just doesn't seem to have that kind 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:41.680 of rhythm that you're used to see in earlier on 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:44.680 in the year. But to me, it's just it's not 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:48.120 meeting the expectations. It's not he's not meeting the kind 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:52.080 of level that he can and he said that before. 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:54.880 But I don't know. We'll see how they keep going 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:57.599 to finish out December. So let me let's talk about 0:06:57.640 --> 0:06:59.960 it just from a big picture offensive standpoint. They had 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:02.600 two touchdowns. Now, those two touchdowns when when they had 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:05.599 short fields, they had the bought the New York Giant, 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:07.200 they got the ball to New York Giant thirteen and 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:10.000 the twenty nine. That's when they scored touchdowns. They were 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:11.880 two or five in the red zone, which red zone 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:14.520 still continues to be a big problem for them. What 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:16.360 do you think was the overall problem with the offense 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:18.240 still in their ability to be able to move the 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:21.000 ball and get points. I think this is just a 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:23.120 continuation of what we've seen, which is I was going 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:25.440 to say this off of what AG was just saying. 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:31.520 Teams are forcing them to do the death by a 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:34.960 thousand cuts thing, like they just and they can't break 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:37.640 out of it, and they're not consistent enough to string 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:41.360 that together. And sometimes it's Dack's fault. Yesterday. Yeah, I mean, 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:44.800 if CD makes those three catches, that's probably as much 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:48.440 as sixty yards and continuing several different drives that you 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:52.760 have scoring opportunities. But like I said, I feel a 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:55.480 lot better about it after everything that happened yesterday. But 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:58.240 Dak went back to this a couple times in the 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:00.240 press conference where he was like, well, that's how teams 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:01.800 are playing us. They're gonna put a shell on us. 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:04.320 They're not going to allow any big plays. And I'm 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:07.240 just like I thought, y'all had the best receiver corps 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:09.680 in the league, like I, and this is a giant 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:13.239 secondary that's completely decimated, like they didn't have they don't 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:15.960 have most of their good players like Covid reeked havoc 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:18.640 on them, and they still weren't able to open things 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:22.280 up and have any have really any downfield passing attack. 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:24.280 I mean, I think I wrote this in my story 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:29.920 like a Mari gallop and CD accounted for like seventy 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:33.040 yards of offense eighty eighty yards basically, and most of 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:35.160 that was CD, who had the worst day of the three. 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:39.840 So that's just it's disconcerting that they just they're they're 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:43.240 having to string together all of these smaller plays to 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:46.440 really put together scoring drives and that's that's not what 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:50.480 I envisioned. And they don't run the ball well right now, 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:52.320 and they haven't been running it well. We've seen that, 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:53.760 and that you have to run the ball in a 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:56.880 game like that. It's easy to sit and watch the 0:08:56.880 --> 0:09:00.600 game from the TV or from the press box or 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:02.680 whatever and just think, well, you got to open the 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:04.280 ball up. But if you're down on the field and 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:06.200 you can see that, like it's not a day to pass. 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:07.959 It wasn't a day to kick. It wasn't a day 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:10.400 to pass. I mean, it's a tough place to throw 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:12.200 the ball around, and so if you're not gonna throw 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:14.040 it deep, you can't throw it deep. You can see 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:15.719 what was happening with the ball. You have to be 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:17.760 able to run it, and this team is struggling running 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:20.080 the ball. So kind of a one dimensional team, And 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:23.000 I mean, and that's not a huge excuse because I mean, 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:24.760 if you're gonna do anything, you're gonna have to go 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:27.520 through Green Bay and the weather conditions are gonna be 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:30.680 tough there. So but you know, it certainly wasn't a 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:32.440 day to throw the ball around the yard. Let me 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:34.480 ask you about the running game, because if you look 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:37.640 at the stat line, Tony Poler had twelve carries seventy 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:40.480 four yards a six point two average. Zeke at sixteen 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:43.200 carries fifty two yards a three point three average. You 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:45.959 look at that, in your natural inclination is to say 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:48.440 they were running the ball with Tony pretty well, like 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:50.960 the average is six point two. Zeke was the one 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:52.719 that you look at his carries and he's had a 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:55.280 three point three average. Is it that simple or there 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:57.959 other things that don't help? Okay, ask the question. It's 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:00.520 not that simple because and I and I gotta go 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:03.160 back and look. But I mean sometimes on second and two, 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:05.960 if you get or third and two, if you get two, 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:08.920 yeah you did your job, and then that kills your 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:11.720 average and all that. But there's no doubt Pollard around 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:14.079 the corner. I mean, I mean, I think it worked 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:17.080 well yesterday and inside outside a little bit more for 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:19.640 Pollard or running the ball better average, of course, But 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:22.000 you know, I thought the touchdown run wasn't was a 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:24.000 good play by Zeke and a good good hole by 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:27.520 Connor Williams and be honest or so you know that 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:30.120 they they got to run it more efficiently though, if 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:32.360 they're going to, especially in conditions like that. And I'm 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:34.439 not saying it was like a dust storm out there, 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:36.480 but it was really tough. I mean that's why, I 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:38.640 mean everyone wants to cut the kicker. I mean, he 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:41.040 missed two extra points in the meadow lands. I think 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:44.920 I think he'll be fine. I actually thought Zeke looked 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:47.520 pretty good yesterday. I'm looking I'm looking back through it 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:51.720 to see like you're seeing some ones twos and zeros 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:54.480 in second half, Like particularly in the first half, I 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:57.600 thought he looked good. I mean the first touchdown was like, 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:00.560 very nice run, very good blocking by that was great 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:02.920 blocking off. And so I wonder if he kind of 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:05.160 wore down as he started taking more hits. I mean, 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:09.319 he did carry the ball sixteen times. I'm at this point, 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:12.600 I think, unless unless you're willing to take the steps 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:14.679 to sit him down which doesn't seem like they want 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:17.440 to do that. And that's fine. I keep saying I 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:19.960 don't really want to do that, but like, unless you're 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:22.160 willing to do that, I think it's probably time to 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:27.320 consider Tony having the larger workload. And that's ironic because 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:30.000 Tony's dealing with an injury as well, but he has 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:32.880 had more success over this second half of the season, 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:35.760 and that's pretty healthy. Yesterday, yeah, he looked fine. He 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:38.360 had a couple where he was like one broken tackle 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:41.120 away from going maybe not the distance, but a hell 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:44.520 of a lot further than he did. So I definitely 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:48.280 I thought Zeke ran about as well as he has 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:52.120 since the bye week yesterday. But if you're not going 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:53.480 to sit him down and give him a chance to 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:56.839 get healthy, then I'm ready to say Tony should probably 0:11:56.840 --> 0:11:58.800 have a larger percent of the workload. So, Nick, you 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:02.520 didn't think the running game even what they needed yesterday, Well, 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:05.040 I mean I just felt like it was borderline to 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:07.120 one dimensional. I mean it was. It was a tough 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:09.920 day to throw out there, and when you're throat, when 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:12.080 you can't throw it deep, you're gonna have to lean 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:14.240 on the run, and that's not been their strong suit. 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:17.120 They ran okay, one hundred and twenty five yards, but 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:20.240 they needed to run it better in a game, In 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:22.800 a game like that, I mean, that's that's all I'm saying, 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:25.520 is you're gonna get into games where, maybe some cold weather, 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:27.880 you're gonna have to be able to lean on the run. 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:29.839 And that's just not something they've been able to do lately, 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:32.480 is lean on the run. I'm not I'm not really 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:36.040 worried that much about the passing game too much. I 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:37.880 think I think they'll get back on track the next 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:41.440 couple of weeks. Just that's that's what I thought this, 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:44.199 that's what I thought this would be, which and you're right, 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:47.719 the conditions. The conditions aren't perfect, I guess, But I 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:49.800 just don't know what people are wanting. I mean, you're 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:52.040 ten and four. You're ten and four. This is a 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:54.560 great football team. This is a great football team. I 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:57.000 wanted to feel like they're not pulling teeth to get 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:59.480 three hundred and twenty eight yards of offense against a 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:02.760 terrible teams. I mean, that's what I want, And I 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:04.400 get I mean, like like I said, I get it. 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:06.560 They're ten and four. They jumped into the two seat 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:09.160 in the NFC yesterday. Like I'm not saying you need 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:11.640 to be unhappy or think that they suck, but it's 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:14.920 very fair to wonder what happened to the team, to 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:17.280 the offense that was just cranking out four hundred yard 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:19.520 games like it was nothing. Is it fair to say? 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:21.120 And actually, we're gonna take a break, but I'm gonna 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:23.400 pose this question before we'll come back and talk about it. 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:25.600 Is it fair to say that maybe what we saw 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:28.800 Denver say after that game, which is teams are not 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:30.880 playing them the right way, what we think we saw 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:33.120 from what Denver did was we're going to force you 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:35.720 to drive the field. Is it not fair to say 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:37.600 that this is what you get when teams say we're 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:40.440 gonna make you drive in small chunks down the field 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:42.560 and Dallas is gonna have to figure out how to 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.200 they sustain drives yesterday, but at this point they're gonna 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:47.880 have to sustain that and figure out how to get 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:50.040 in the end zone. Is it fair to say that 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:52.760 they are doing what teams are giving them the ability 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:55.080 to do and that may just be how they're gonna 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:56.960 have to play in order to win. We'll talk about 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:58.520 that when we come right back. This is Dallas Cowboys 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:03.960 dot Com Radio. At ATNC, everyone new and existing customers 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:06.880 get our best deals on every smartphone. 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The zero you 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:04.560 deserve is finally here. Back to the break all right 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:06.480 times running out to visit the start to get your 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:09.080 photo of Sandon presented by a monument really Santa Claus. 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:11.840 We'll be at the Cowboys theme cottage at the Star 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:15.000 District across from Ascension and the Star Boulevard from through 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:17.480 December twenty fourth. For more information, book your photos at 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:20.240 the Starter District dot com slash Sandon Welcome back. It 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:22.160 is the second second of the Break Life and s 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:24.320 WBC Mortg Studios. At the start, we're talking about the 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:27.520 Cowboys win over the New York Giants. They win twenty 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:30.880 one to six. Before the break I was asking this question, 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:33.800 you look at how the Cowboys played yesterday. They complete 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:36.920 a high percentage. Your plat passes a lot of underneath throws. 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:40.800 I thought, I thought they ran the belt the ball efficiently. 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:42.320 I thought they got what they needed out of their 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:45.880 running game for a game like this. Their defense played outstanding. 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:50.880 Is that not the formula maybe for how Dallas needs 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:52.680 to play? And we need to maybe give up that 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:55.960 whole idea of you know, you can throw for three 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:58.840 hundred and fifty four hundred yards and win games, and 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:01.400 maybe this is a better, more sustainable way of winning 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:04.080 football games. Yeah, I mean That's something Kellen Moore is 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:06.200 going to have to realize and if he hasn't already, 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:08.920 is that you know, you can win games kicking field 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:11.600 goals with this defense, not with just with all defense, 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:13.760 but with this defense in a game like that, you 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:16.000 got to understand. And I don't think it's bad to say, 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:18.080 I've said this on the radio this morning. I mean 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:20.439 Doc is a bus driver right now. That's what he 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:23.879 needs to do is drive the bus. This offense is 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:26.320 not what it was before. And this is a defensive 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:30.840 football team. So you know, yes, be less conservative down 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:34.280 in the red zone, kick field goals, put your best 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:36.200 unit back on the field. I mean there are certain 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:37.880 games where you have to do that, and I think 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:39.479 every game takes on a life of its own. When 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:43.760 you're facing Mike Glennon and Taylor Heinekey and those guys, 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:47.679 you know, be smart, don't don't And I understand why 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:49.280 they're turning the ball over in the fourth court. I 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:51.480 mean eight minutes to go, they're doing these bootlegs and 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:54.159 stuff like that. I mean that's just the arrogance that 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:56.720 I still don't think that they've gotten out of and 0:17:56.760 --> 0:17:59.159 say this is not what we need to do not 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:01.720 at that point in the game, run the ball, punt it, 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:04.720 and let your best unit get on the field and 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:07.760 take control. Do you think that was about them? Them 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:10.119 also wanting to get this offense on tracks, so they're like, 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:13.720 we're gonna keep trying, keep trying, everything this thing going, Like, 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:15.240 you know, that's the only thing I can think of, 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:17.639 because you're right, just if you watching the game, you're like, 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:20.119 just put this thing away. Why are you doing that? Well, 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:24.399 you don't have to. I'm like Dak struggles with impatience 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:27.639 and greediness. I mean, maybe he would take issue with 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:29.480 that if he heard me say it, but like every 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:32.119 week he's like, yeah, that was me being greedy. You know, 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:33.520 he held on in the ball too long because he 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:36.000 was looking for Amari further down the field. He had 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:38.760 Michael Gallup open. He said that himself, and that's a 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:42.919 recurring theme, like he's frustrated by not having the plays 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:44.840 that were there for him earlier in the season and 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:47.560 he's trying to get it. Reminds me of me playing Madden. 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:50.240 I say that all the time, like when you're when 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:52.600 you can't get it working, you just start forcing stuff 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:54.960 and you're like, I'm getting my damn stats. I don't care, 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:57.720 and I'm not saying that Dak cares more about stats 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:00.280 than wins, but you get accustomed to that, and you 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:02.639 also know you have the talent to make it happen. 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:07.080 And that's why I disagree with with that, not completely, 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:10.040 because I do think that there are important elements to 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:13.760 playing this late season, December playoff football. You gotta be 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:16.000 able to run the ball, you gotta be fundamentally sound. 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:19.320 But just too much talent on this offense for me 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:20.920 to be like, you know, you guys, just run it 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:22.920